Thursday, June 29, 2023

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Just One Day to Go Before it Hits Theaters (A Note on the Latest Opening Weekend Projection)

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Boxoffice Pro has just put out its projection for this coming weekend --and along with the usual projection for three-day Friday-to-Sunday ...

The Little Mermaid: Box Office Gross: The Fifth Weekend--and the Upcoming Sixth

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During the run of The Little Mermaid some analysts found it useful to compare the film's domestic run to that of 2019's Aladdin --t...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse vs. Guardians of the Galaxy 3: After the Fourth Weekend, and Into the Fifth

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is proving a rare instance these days of a sequel significantly outdoing its predecessor--performing, a...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Opening Weekend Expectations, Domestic and Global

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Last week did not see Boxoffice Pro 's already low and falling expectations for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 's domestic op...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

The James Bond Continuation Novels: In Lieu of a Guide

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Listed below are the James Bond continuation novels--specifically the twenty-seven authorized, non-novelization James Bond continuation nove...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Review: Never Send Flowers, by John Gardner

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While there was always an important element of continuity between James Bond's adventures in Ian Fleming's novels (the Soviets' ...
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Why No Wildstorm Cinematic Universe?

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We have reports of a movie about the Authority possibly in the making, apparently as part of the bigger DC reboot being overseen by James Gu...

Married . . . With Children . . . In Animated Form?

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I was recently surprised to hear of plans for a revival of Married . . . With Children in animated form. Even by today's remake-mad H...

Clive Cussler's 1993 in Dragon

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From quite early on Clive Cussler got in the habit of setting his Dirk Pitt novels a few years ahead into the future, so as to offer some la...

Characterizations and Prose in the Popular Thriller: Clive Cussler's Dragon

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Recently reviewing Clive Cussler's Dragon I considered the book as a Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt novel from the period I associate with his...

Clive Cussler's Dragon as a Novel of the '90s

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From the standpoint of politics Clive Cussler's contributions to the thriller form tend to be of the "orthodox" kind, where a...

Review: Dragon, by Clive Cussler

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MILD SPOILERS AHEAD As a reader of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels I have long felt that Cussler hit his peak with his early 500-page...

Conan the Barbarian on the Screen: Reflections

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These past few years there was talk of bringing Robert Howard's Conan the Barbarian back to the screen--but then there always is (live-a...

Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin, Masters of the Novelized Wargame

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In learning that Tom Clancy, while getting the byline on the cover, had a cowriter in wargame designer Larry Bond, one may wonder which of t...

The Decline and Fall of the Gag Comedy Film

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What ever happened to the gag comedy? It seems to me that the genre had a golden age in the '70s, evident in such hits as the Mel Brooks...